UX Camp Spring / Summer 2023

We'll open the doors a little early and let folks in. Sometimes, we have surprises, sometimes, we play music, sometimes it's a little quiet. Get there a little early to be ready for kick-off!

Starting the event!

Leverage Your Design Skills to Boost Confidence

A lack of confidence can make it difficult to make decisions, grow, and, ultimately, fulfill your potential. The ambiguity and complexity inherent to the design profession exacerbates the issue, challenging you to maintain confidence while constantly navigating new and unknown situations.

While power posing and affirmative self-talk can offer a momentary boost, lasting confidence is built through exercising curiosity. This approach allows anyone to utilize their design skills of exploration and experimentation to overcome the confidence gap.

15 minute break.

Shaping Design: Actively shape your unique path in UX

Jason Mesut will share an overview of the visual frameworks he has been developing over the past 17 years. These frameworks help design teams, leaders and designers to reflect on their career and self, define their unique profile, and focus their future path. Helping you understand yourself better. So that you can sharpen your future focus.

Through his role as a team leader, and with workshops he runs with the community and his clients, he has seen how valuable it is for designers to self-reflect on who they are, and focus the areas in which they feel like they should develop. Whether that’s within, or beyond the context of the organisation in which they work.

He believes using these visual frameworks can help:
– Hire the right people and build the right teams for your organisation
– Reflect on your own abilities as designers, leaders and managers
– Direct your own and your team’s development
– Teams feel better about who they are within their organisation and recognise the opportunities of staying rather than leaving to grow themselves

15 minute break.

UX Maturity Rankings – from diagnosis to increasing the impact of your efforts

Maturity models are tools to show you how you and your team are delivering as a UX practice. When you understand where you are and where you can go, planning for a successful future for you and your team can hone strategies for progress.

We’ll explore the details of many of the most popular maturity models to help you learn how to assess your team. Lastly, we’ll dive into sharing the results of your assessments to best articulate the value of leveling up

15 minute break.

Catching UX Champions with Research Bait

Every UXer has a vague idea that having a UX champion well-positioned at your company is a good thing but no one tells you how to get one and what to do once you have one.

I’ll share my secrets on how you can identify potential UX champions by turning your research skills toward business stakeholders and then cultivate them into champions using your user research findings as bait.

Why you should create UX champions in your company
Why research is good bait
Steps to identifying a UX champion candidate
Steps to cultivating a UX champion
Congrats! You have a UX champion. Now what?

15 minuted break.

Presenting Your UX Work Using Spontaneous Talks Frameworks

We know that articulating our design decisions or presenting the value of our user research to stakeholders can sometimes be a challenge. Spontaneous Talks Frameworks have been around for years. They are often taught at universities and are used to help people think of answers or tell stories fast and smart. Jen is going to teach you a few Spontaneous Talks Frameworks so you can use them when presenting your work, answering tough questions or simply telling your stories. Applying these simple frameworks can help a person avoid anxiety by quickly organizing a thought, and moving forward to articulating that thought in a cohesive and eloquent manner.

15 minute break.

Erin Malone: Hidden Histories: Lost Women of the Internet Era - Dot com boom to Social Media

Wrapping up the day.